Blackledge v. Spikes
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Harrison county. Hon. W. M. Denny, Je., Chancellor. Suit by Mrs. A. L. Spikes against W. L. Blackledge. From a decree for complainant, defendant appeals and complainant cross appeals. ' The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
The appellee, Mrs, Spikes, filed a bill in the chancery court to have a deed executed by her to the appellant declared a mortgage and canceled. She alleges that the deed ivas given to the appellant as security in consideration of the appellant’s making a bond for the son of the appellee, who had been convicted of a crime and sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars and to serve a term of imprisonment, from which judgment he appealed with supersedeas to the supreme court (Spikes v. State, 98 Miss. 483, 54 So. 1-, and that the cause was reversed and remanded, and thereafter *547the…
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- Spikes v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1910